Posts by Kumara Republic
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Looks like all diplomatic avenues have been exhausted...
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There's something wonderfully Soviet in the way ACT supports this action.
Make the science conform to our ideology! Or we'll see you in court!
And by wonderful I mean horrible.
Come to think of it, it's no coincidence that many such middle-aged neo-cons were uber-Marxists in their youth. What doesn't change though, is their zealotry.
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@I/S: this has echoes of Trevor Farmer's ACT donation launderings in 1996. This also has echoes of the McLibel lawsuit in the sense of what is tantamount to corporate censorship.
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@Matt P: It seems employment law changes, coupled with proposed changes to welfare, have created an unintended consequence or two - most likely an escalating fear of being unemployed. That people are likely to be more reluctant to change jobs if there's no guarantee of finding another, or if they're facing the chop, they'll be rather bolshie about it (like in France).
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Rich Lock:
"Oh, that's simple.
If your 'garden' is a patch of dirt out front with an old car up on blocks sitting in the middle of it, you're working class.
If you have a garden and tend it yourself, you're middle class.
If you can afford to pay for a gardener, you're upper-middle class.
And if your garden is so big that you need multiple gardeners and possibly a gamekeeper, you're upper class."
What about apartment dwellers?
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Seriously folks, we can't just sit by on the sidelines and watch our country devolve into a bastard offspring of Fountain Lakes and Airstrip One.
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And not a Murdoch in sight.
Maybe not, but there was a Conrad Black.
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If RNZ & TVNZ6&7 absolutely must merge, then please let it be RadioNZ with Pictures, not TV1&2 with Sound.
If we can get it right, we'll have a reincarnated NZBC. But if we get it wrong, well, Max Headroom has done the explaining for us.
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The gauntlets are well and truly off. Richard Trumka calling off his visit was just the beginning.
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We're classless all right, but only in the British sense that we have no Lords or Barons. To cut a long story short, the class divide has become privatised, with celebrities and CEO's standing in for the aristocracy.